Exclusive: President Obama, with his characteristic diffidence, has announced his “liberation” from the Washington foreign-policy “playbook,” but the national security elite is already striking back, writes Gareth Porter.
Category: Right Wing
Misunderstanding the Terror Threat
An Ugly Smear Campaign
Censoring Palestinian Maps
Will We Miss President Obama?
To Cuba with Hate
By traveling to Cuba and easing the embargo, President Obama signals reduced U.S. hostility but no apologies for the cruelty that Washington has inflicted on the Caribbean island for more than half a century, says William Blum.
US Hypocritical Lectures to Cuba
Behind the Crimea/Russia Reunion
Obama’s Plea for Validation
The Catch-22 of Closing Gitmo
President Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo – even if it could be implemented – would still leave several dozen detainees in the legal limbo as “non-releasable,” albeit inside U.S. prisons, as Helen Schietinger explains.